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Bitwarden (my favorite and recommended password manager) is offering a “new deployment option”. This new option combines all microservices into a single Docker container and doesn’t require 11 different containers anymore. And it supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB in addition to MS SQL.
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳
P.S.: And I can mention ActivityPub actors and they will get a notification (at least on Mastodon).
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit…
DigitalOcean has a simplified Mastodon setup and now I can try to improve my ActivityPub implementation during the next two months and then probably have to create a new DigitalOcean account.
By the way, happy holidays! 🎄 My family’s Christmas wasn’t as expected. On Wednesday evening I got sick (I guess it’s RSV). But my girlfriend and my sister are also sick. 🤒 Today is my first day without fever, but it doesn’t feel like that.
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.)
Update: Just tried the Performance Lab plugin with SQLite support enabled on a test WordPress instance using Docker. Do I see it right, that the plugin isn’t using SQLite WAL? That would probably give the whole thing a big speed boost. At least that’s what I do with GoBlog and my website is fast, right? 🤓
I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix?
Last year, YouTuber MegaLag tried to send several AirTag-ged packages from Germany to North Korea with DHL. But instead of arriving there, they were either misrouted to South Korea or ended up in China. In a new video, he further researches the reasons and also takes a look at DHL’s sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting!
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. 🐰
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Like of: Go IndieWeb with GoBlog
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence.
Thanks, Andrés, for all your great improvement ideas, will to try out all the undocumented features, your feedback and for sharing GoBlog! 😄
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo.
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. 😬 (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!)
Due to some mistakes in my blog’s ActivityPub implementation, I lost all my followers and my posts didn’t send. Glad that I have some backup and was able to reimport all followers from 2022-12-10 02:00. 😅 If you followed me after that time, please re-follow to get my posts in your user’s inbox. 😊
And now, good night! 😴